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Posted On: December 7th 2025, 07:33 pm
Mexico City 💚🤍❤️
Wherever you look, there is colour. The brightly coloured houses, intermittently draped with paperflowers, to the displays of fresh fruit and vegetables found at the mercado, or perhaps sold from the back of a truck.
The array of sweets at dulcerias, held within clear plastic containers that remind you of Woolworths pick and mix.
Neat rows of agua frescas - hibiscus, tamarind, horchata.
Salsa rojo, verde, mole.
In the morning, you can smell the heat coming off the comals, ready for the day's trade. Sweet breads, coffee, atole, cinnamon.
Later, the traffic builds, and the scent of petrol is a backdrop to the al pastor and guisados, it is difficult to not feel hungry in this city.
There are the expected sounds - car horns, dogs barking, people chatting. Maybe you didn't expect the call of the bicycle street vendors as they pass your window offering tamales and more. The looped recording of a young child announcing the scrap metal van, the clash of overlapping boomboxes, and the occasional mariachi band serenade.
I think I'm in love with the place.
Wherever you look, there is colour. The brightly coloured houses, intermittently draped with paperflowers, to the displays of fresh fruit and vegetables found at the mercado, or perhaps sold from the back of a truck.
The array of sweets at dulcerias, held within clear plastic containers that remind you of Woolworths pick and mix.
Neat rows of agua frescas - hibiscus, tamarind, horchata.
Salsa rojo, verde, mole.
In the morning, you can smell the heat coming off the comals, ready for the day's trade. Sweet breads, coffee, atole, cinnamon.
Later, the traffic builds, and the scent of petrol is a backdrop to the al pastor and guisados, it is difficult to not feel hungry in this city.
There are the expected sounds - car horns, dogs barking, people chatting. Maybe you didn't expect the call of the bicycle street vendors as they pass your window offering tamales and more. The looped recording of a young child announcing the scrap metal van, the clash of overlapping boomboxes, and the occasional mariachi band serenade.
I think I'm in love with the place.
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